Search Results: Authors starting with T from Schubertiade

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Printed letterpress broadside extolling the virtues of the newly invented "talking machine," Thomas Edison's phonograph, and advertising a live demonstration of the machine on November 28th of an unspecified year, ca. 1880s–1890s.  "The talking machine is one of the most wonderful inventions of the age, and is a source of wonder and delight to young and old," the copy reads.  "It preaches, tells funny stories, sings, plays all kinds of music and talks talk.  A strictly high-class entertainment."  While the majority of the broadside is printed, the specifics of the demonstration are handwritten in a combination of pen and crayon.  Occasional tearing, including a significant 9-inch diagonal tear from the left edge that has been reinforced on the verso with scotch tape, but otherwise in good condition.  12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)."In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the first device to ever record and play back sound.  Soundwaves captured by a mouthpiece caused a… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Autograph signature from the Polish-born composer and pianist, who has signed in green ink to a trimmed concert program listing for his Symphony No. 5 in D minor.  The listing, which has been mounted to an autograph album leaf together with the composer's bio from the same program, notes that the conductor led the performance of his work.  The date of the performance, February 6, 1943, has been written by the autograph's recipient to the lower left corner.  In fine condition.  6.75 x 5 inches (17.1 x 12.7 cm.).From the program bio: "Mr. Tansman is among the more recent of eminent European musicians who have come to the United States and who are now exerting their influence to make our musical life richer, fuller and more varied...His originality and poetic nature, admirably attuned to the times in which he lives, have given him a place of deserved prominence in today's musical world."

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Folding Christmas card, custom-made for the American composer and critic, with embossed-relief Nativity scene mounted to blue first page and printed text, "Christmas greetings and best wishes for the new year / Deems Taylor" to recto of second leaf.  Probably sent to Italian-American painter Luigi Lucioni.  No date.  Oblong format, 5.25 x 7.25 inches (13 x 18.3 cm).  In fine condition.After graduating from New York University, Deems enjoyed some success with such compositions as Through the Looking Glass (1917). Continuing to compose, he also took up an active career as a music critic for various publications and later as a promoter of serious music on radio, becoming widely known as the intermission commentator for the New York Philharmonic broadcasts (1936--43); he even appeared in the Disney film Fantasia (1940). His music remained relatively conservative; several works, including the opera Peter Ibbetson (1931), were well-received in their time but have since… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Signed Charles Reutlinger of Paris photograph of the esteemed Russian composer whose colorful, dramatic, and expressive works represent the epitome of the Russian Romantic tradition and take a place among the most beloved staples of the concert repertory. Rare original 4.25 x 6 inch cabinet bust portrait of the composer at age 46, taken in Paris, 9/21 June of 1886, signed with his name alone to the upper portion of the image in fountain pen. With backstamp advertising the "14 Medailles" of "Ch. Reutlinger / Paris / 21, Boulevard Montmartre." Light scattered foxing and light fading to image and signature, last few letters slightly smudged, else fine. The present photograph was taken when the composer was visiting Paris from mid-May through mid-June of 1886, during which time he attended to family business, worked on his opera The Enchantress, and made the acquaintance of his Paris publisher, Mackar.  "The Committees of the Paris Sebastian Bach Society and the… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Uncommon signed photograph of the pioneering gospel singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Tharpe, whose mixture of spiritual lyrics and electric guitar was an important early influence on rock and roll, has inscribed "To Clive / yours truly / Sister Rosetta Tharpe / Dec. 22 1939" in blue ink across the image, a halftone photograph of her in performance, her name printed beneath the image. Mild wear to edges, creasing to corners; else in fine condition. 8.25 x 6.6 inches (21 x 16.8 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. A graphically striking vintage news banner issued by the Evening Standard, in two colors, proclaiming peace at the end of WW2. Signed and inscribed on the verso in ink from Bob Freeman "To George and Pattie," later gifted by George Harrison (presumably after his divorce from Pattie Boyd in 1977) to Ringo Starr and acquired by us from the Collection of Ringo Starr.  29 by 17 inches. In very good condition, with tears professionally mended with Japanese tissue, and archivally framed with the signed portion on verso left visible within a rear window on mat.  Robert Freeman is a photographer and designer, most famous for his album cover photos for The Beatles and his design work on the end credit sequences of their first two films and the related film posters and advertising materials.  He was the Beatles' most favoured photographer during the years 1963 to 1966 and shot arguably the most well known images of them. He photographed and designed the covers for five… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Poster advertising the 1958 British film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Michael Redgrave, Ian Bannen and Lionel Jeffries. The design features two doctors in surgical scrubs and masks below bold red lettering on a black and white background, over the text "Behind the scenes drama of a Great Hospital." Printed by Stafford and Co Ltd, Netherfield, Nottingham and London. 40 x 27 inches [102 x 69 cm]. Good condition, folds, creasing, small tears on edges, browning. 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Scarce original concert flyer for a 1969 concert advertising "The Exciting Tamla-Motown Star" Stevie Wonder, The Foundations "Build Me Up Buttercup," and "America's Glamorous Recording Stars" The Flirtations, appearing at the Odeon Theatre in Manchester on March 19.  The booking form on the lower margin remains completely intact and blank.  An incredible and rare example of 1960s Motown ephemera.  Mild toning throughout, with trifold creasing; overall in fine condition.  5.7 x 11.4 inches (14.5 x 29.8 cm.).

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Graphically striking vintage suitcase used as instrument case by the leader of the wonderfully named and unique traveling musical formation from the Hoosier state.  The Spasmodic band were a group of oddballs who played bizarre music from homemade instruments in Mishawaka, a suburb of South Bend, Indiana.  Write-ups of their gigs, generally house parties and boxing matches, in 1916 and 1917 can be found in the archives of the local paper.  Included is a note explaining the original use of the case and its provenance: "This suitcase owned by Connel Yazel (1874-1972), the leader of this band, who lived at the Marion St. Mishawaka address. He was a member of the band from about 1896 until 1936, and could play multiple instruments, including the drums, harmonica, banjo, and guitar. He was famous in the area for balancing himself on a cut of broomstick and hopping around stage on it.  Connel kept his band stuff in the suitcase. Information from his grandson, Roy Shamory,… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Lithograph in color on wove paper, signed, dated and numbered "11-17" in pencil by the artist.  Framed, in fine condition.  20.5 x 26.5 inches (52.1 x 67.3 cm.). A fine and scarce example of this early work.Best known for his luscious paintings of pies, ice-cream cones and gumball machines, California artist Wayne Thiebaud was an avid and prolific draftsman from the moment he began his career as an illustrator and cartoonist.  Associated with Pop art because of his interest in objects of mass culture, he endows even the most banal, everyday scenes with a sense of poetry and nostalgia.  His early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists like Warhol, Oldenburg and Lichtenstein, suggesting that Thiebaud may have had an influence on the movement. 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Music from the Ether / Concert Demonstration...Produced by Free Movement of Hands in Air." An extraordinary rare souvenir program from one of the first US concert demonstrations of the marvelous instrument. From a concert at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, March 1, 1928. 4 pages. With an evocative color illustration by Hudiakoff and including a description of the instrument and a photograph. Light wear to edges, overall in fine condition. 6 x 9 inches (15.3 x 22.9 cm.).Born in St Petersburg as Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Léon Theremin was experimenting with electricity in a home laboratory from the age of 17, and after military service in the Russian civil war, began researching at the Physical Technical Institute in Petrograd. It was there that he accidentally invented the theremin—when he realized that moving his hand close to the electrical device he was working on changed the pitch it generated. By November 1920, he had given his first public performance on the… Read More

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Highly amusing signed photograph of the famed conductor riding a ski lift up the slope of 9,000 foot Baldy mountain during his "day off" during a cross-country tour with the NBC Symphony, where he and the 125 members of the orchestra had stopped over en route to a concert engagement in Seattle. Toscanini has inscribed in red ink to the Second Flute and Saxophone player of the orchestra: "To John Fulton / sweet remembrance of our unforgettable tour / (Sun Valley / 1950) / Arturo Toscanini." Mounting remnants to verso, significant staining and some surface chips/nicks to the image surface mostly limited to the right-hand upper quarter, else fine. 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm). 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Pipsqueak toy of plaster, fabric and string, decorated with two faces, American, late-19th century.  2.25 x 2 inches (5.7 x 5 cm.). Fabric torn, else fine.

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Portrait of the American bass.  Inscription, "To the Thomas Beecham Society with profound gratitude for your work in preserving for posterity the image of a fine man and great musician. Sincerely, Giorgio Tozzi." Mounted on red cardboard.  10.75 x 9.75 inches (27.3 x 24.6 cm).  In fine condition. 

Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Unusual still-life carte de visite photograph, ca. 1880s, of a mouse ensnared in an intricate homemade mouse trap.  The peculiar trap has been arranged in an open facing box, with an open pocket knife perched on top and adding to the somewhat threatening and surreal nature of the composition.  Photographer's stamp to verso.  Light scratching to surface and mild toning throughout; overall fine.  Photograph 2.5 x 4.25 inches (6.35 x 10.8 cm.); matted to an overall size of 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.).

Boston: Published for the Author, 1875. First Edition thus. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (190 x 120 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait; offsetting to frontis., scattered thumbsoiling and toning, newspaper clipping of her obituary laid down on rear endpapers with accompanying browning and old adhesive; modern reproduction carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth laid down on front paste-down. Publisher's black cloth with gilt portrait of Truth to upper cover; heavily restored and worn, retaining most of the original covers, and part of the spine.  The present work, a revised and expanded biography of the noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth, belonged to George Gage, a prominent citizen in Reconstruction-era Beaufort, South Carolina. Gage was a civil engineer born in McConnelsville, Ohio who moved to Beaufort to work as a surveyor. While working on the railroad construction project from Augusta to Beaufort, he developed an interest in vocational training for the… Read More